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dc.contributor.authorGautschi, Joel-
dc.contributor.authorLätsch, David-
dc.date.accessioned2023-07-21T06:49:16Z-
dc.date.available2023-07-21T06:49:16Z-
dc.date.issued2023-04-13-
dc.identifier.urihttps://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/28324-
dc.description.abstractBackground and purpose: Child maltreatment impairs the child’s integrity and is associated with physical, psychological, and social harm that may last into adulthood. Preventing the occurrence and chronicity of child maltreatment requires not only accurate assessments by social workers and other professionals at early stages, but also effective interventions. In response to this, interventions have been developed in recent decades and a substantial number of studies have examined their effects. The results of these studies have been synthesized in systematic reviews and meta-analyses for different types of interventions. What is lacking is a systematic and up-to-date overview and comparison of these reviews’ findings. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap and answer the following three questions: - How effective are interventions in preventing the occurrence and chronicity of child maltreatment? - For which groups of people and in which contexts have interventions been shown to be effective? - How robust is the empirical basis of these findings? Methods: A systematic review of systematic reviews, called umbrella review, was conducted. Ten databases on OvidSP and Web of Science were searched up to January 2022. Search terms were predefined along the search criteria for the following dimensions (criteria): Review type (systematic reviews, meta-analysis), population (children, various terms from newborn to adolescents), intervention (various terms for types of interventions), outcomes (child maltreatment, abuse and neglect, including exposure to intimate partner violence). Publications were selected based on predefined inclusion/exclusion criteria applied to titles/abstracts in a first step and to the full texts in a second step. Narrative synthesis was used to document the reviews’ findings. If several reviews were available for an intervention type, reviews were excluded according to the criteria of actuality, quality, and scope. Findings: n = 39 publications documenting systematic reviews or meta-analyses were included out of 1,850 unduplicated citations. Reported effects for these intervention types and context were often accompanied with high uncertainty. Where effects were found, they were mostly small and rarely moderate. The presentation will provide an overview of specific findings for the following intervention types: socioeconomic interventions, media campaigns, community-based interventions, primary care interventions, parent training and family therapy, home visiting, family group conferences, and interventions for specific problems. An overview of the quality of systematic reviews and meta-analyses is provided. Conclusions and implications: Limitations of the current state of research in relation to the review’s questions are discussed (e.g., the problem of aggregating results from studies on different interventions, the problem of too few replications in different contexts, limitations in research designs, reasons why effects might be over- or underestimated). An outline is given of how these limitations could be partially overcome. Finally, implications of the current state of these outcome studies for practice are drawn.de_CH
dc.language.isoende_CH
dc.rightsLicence according to publishing contractde_CH
dc.subjectChild protectionde_CH
dc.subjectPreventionde_CH
dc.subjectChild maltreatmentde_CH
dc.subjectInterventionde_CH
dc.subjectReviewde_CH
dc.subject.ddc362.7: Jugendhilfede_CH
dc.titleThe effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment : an umbrella reviewde_CH
dc.typeKonferenz: Sonstigesde_CH
dcterms.typeTextde_CH
zhaw.departementSoziale Arbeitde_CH
zhaw.organisationalunitInstitut für Kindheit, Jugend und Familie (IKJF)de_CH
zhaw.conference.details12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023de_CH
zhaw.funding.euNode_CH
zhaw.originated.zhawYesde_CH
zhaw.publication.statuspublishedVersionde_CH
zhaw.publication.reviewNot specifiedde_CH
zhaw.funding.zhawWirksamkeit von Interventionen zur Prävention von Kindesmisshandlung und -vernachlässigungde_CH
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Gautschi, J., & Lätsch, D. (2023, April 13). The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment : an umbrella review. 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023.
Gautschi, J. and Lätsch, D. (2023) ‘The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment : an umbrella review’, in 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023.
J. Gautschi and D. Lätsch, “The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment : an umbrella review,” in 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023, Apr. 2023.
GAUTSCHI, Joel und David LÄTSCH, 2023. The effectiveness of interventions to prevent child maltreatment : an umbrella review. In: 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023. Conference presentation. 13 April 2023
Gautschi, Joel, and David Lätsch. 2023. “The Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment : An Umbrella Review.” Conference presentation. In 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023.
Gautschi, Joel, and David Lätsch. “The Effectiveness of Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment : An Umbrella Review.” 12th European Conference for Social Work Research (ECSWR), Milan, Italy, 12-14 April 2023, 2023.


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